March 1, 1920

Kazan
Provincial Cheka
Copy to Provincial Executive Committee
Copy to Provincial Committee of the RCP

Sofya Mikhaylovna Ivanova, widow of the chairman of the Tolstoy Society, is complaining that she is being wronged, that the mob is being incited against her. Investigate. Immediately put an end to these outrages.

Report to me by telegraph on the execution of this order and the name of the person conducting the investigation, and send the details by post.

Lenin

First published in 1933

in the Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript